A white woolly sheepskin lies on the ground.
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Gideon and the Miraculous Dryness of the Fleece; Gideon and the Dew on the Fleece (Ms. 33, fol. 130v, from the Weltchronik)
Unknown painter, Regensburg · about 1400–1410
Getty Center, Los Angeles
The Regensburg Weltchronik, about 1400–1410, shows Gideon’s two tests in two small panels side by side.
In the first, an old man in a pale robe bends over a sheepskin on the ground. In the second, he wrings the fleece over a wooden tub. The rocks around him are painted in white and grey.
From the text
- A fleece of wool laid on the threshing floor (Judges 6:37)
- He wrings out the dew — a bowlful of water (Judges 6:38)
The artist’s own
- A wooden tub for the bowl
- Gideon as an old man in a turban
Details
The fleece
The tub
He squeezes the fleece over a wooden tub.
Gideon
An old man in a blue turban.
Unknown illuminator, Regensburg; text by Rudolf von Ems (Austrian, about 1200–1254). The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Ms. 33 (88.MP.70), fol. 130v) · Tempera colors, gold, silver paint, and ink · Images provided here are believed to be in the public domain and are available under CC0 through Getty’s Open Content Program. (Getty record: "No Copyright", http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)